The Flow Show

Nov 01, 13

The Flow Show SF is back for its 8th annual showcase!

The Flow Show returns to Dance Mission Theater for it’s 8th year in the heart of San Francisco’s vibrant mission district. The Flow Show serves up a whopping cast of new and professional artists that all use Flow Arts as their medium to connect with performance and art.

These acts are not your typical circus style routines. The performers specialize in Flow Arts, a broad manipulation category that can include everything from juggling to spinning poi, fans or hula hoops to levitating dancing wands. These skills are fused with dance, creative movement, and emotion to create a unique show that will inspire and captivate the imagination. Sold out seats year after year prove that audiences want to experience the new culture of Flow Arts.

Join us in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District and be inspired by flow artists from the Bay Area and Beyond. The Flow Show highlights innovative movement arts combining prop manipulation with dance, juggling and theater. This year’s performance props include Poi, Hoops, Fans, Staff,Contact Balls and Diabolo.

Join us at The Muriel Schulman Theater in Brooklyn, a brand new location for Triskelion Arts, and be inspired by talented artists from The Big Apple and beyond. The Flow Show highlights innovative movement arts combining prop manipulation with dance, juggling and theater. This year’s performance props include Poi, Hoops, Fans, Staff,Contact Balls and Diabolo.

When:
Friday, 3 April: doors open at 6:00pm and show starts at 7:00pm
Saturday, 4 April: doors open at 6:00pm and show starts at 7:00pm
Sunday, 5 April: doors open at 5pm and show starts at 6:00pm

FLOW SHOW launches in Chicago!
The Flow Show is growing — we’re proud to announce the Flow Show Chicago, a showcase of some of the country’s best flow arts talent!

Join us for three performances at Stage 773 to celebrate the creativity and imagination that has grown from the amazing object manipulation communities of the Midwest. Since its birth in San Francisco and continuing through its debut in New York, the Flow Show has been met with consistently sold out performances and rave reviews, providing audiences with inspiration and excitement for a growing art form.

Tickets are currently available for the three performances:
Friday, March 27th, 2014 8 PM
Saturday, March 28th, 2014 8 PM
Sunday, March 29th, 2014 2 PM$25 general admission, $15 children 12 and under
Click here for tickets to an awesome show!Stage 773
1225 W. Belmont Ave, Chicago – near the Belmont Red Line stop www.stage773.com | 773.327.5252

Celebrating its sixth year in San Francisco, The Flow Show SF is an innovative showcase of object manipulation that will change your idea of movement. Sometimes known as “spinning”, this group of movement disciplines all share one common trait: the manipulation of a “prop” or object. This year’s cast includes flow artists exploring artistic themes with poi, hoop, staff, buugeng, ball, and other props, all in the intimacy of a dance theater setting. Combining elements of dance, circus, and theater, with mind-blowing dexterity, timing, and expression, this groundbreaking show will take you on a creative journey through flow.

THE FLOW SHOW NYC presents an inspiring marriage of body movement and props in this two-hour showcase. Witness meticulously assembled dance acts punctuated by feats that seem to defy the laws of space and gravity – all executed with precise technique, beauty, and grace.

The Flow Show started as a lark for founder Khan Wong. He had witnessed too many performances where the spinner or juggler’s act was background dressing or a side-act to a “main” event. These performances included fire shows where even though the performer was front and center, it was moreso the fire that the audience saw. He wondered what a stage show would be like, where the focus was on the spinner, their skill, their choreography, their expression, and where the performances were presented as a form of dance-theater.

Thus a call was put out “Hey everybody let’s put on a show…” Many in the San Francisco spinning community stepped up to participate. That first year, the show happened to fall the weekend before Firedrums, when a lot of the brightest lights in the international spinning world were already arriving in town for the annual camp-out/firejam/marathon geek out session. It was a rare alignment, and a crowd estimated to be three times the legal capacity of the venue showed up and most were turned away. The response by those who made it into the show was rapturous, and it was clear at the end of that first night that something bigger than a one-off show was born.

The Flow Show has now been presented five times in San Francisco, with the second New York City production coming in December 2013 and the first Chicago and sixth San Francisco shows in 2014.